Wishing you a happy and healthy year of the Rabbit

In keeping with today's spirit of recycling, and noting how quickly twelve years have flown by, we're pleased to re-send our previous Year of the Rabbit e-card (vintage 1999). The card was one in our series of annually anticipated Chinese New Year's cards featuring first Jinx (who lived to the ripe age of 18) and subsequently Katz, who is 12.  Kung hei!

Please click below to see our past cards:
http://www.ltdhk.com/ltd_cny_2002/jinx.html

That's Italian

We recently wrapped up an identity project for a casual Italian restaurant - Bene Italian. We pasted up dozens of photocopies of our interior wall design in sections in order to review it in full scale. We were asked to create a modern-retro look, with authentically Italian visual ingredients.

The application on glass.

We also did the hoarding, in a very short time.

Details of Bene Italian's consumer identity at ltdhk.com

How high the spoon

LTD recently produced a poster for the restaurant W52, for which we previously created the identity and interior walls. It is now installed at the 3rd level of the glass-walled elevator shaft, where VIP diners are put into a relaxed mood.

Yes, it looks as great in our office.

Bronze winner of the 2010 DFA Awards

LTD took Bronze in the 2010 Design for Asia Awards, organized by The Hong Kong Design Centre. The DFA Awards are "presented to companies and designers from around the world that have achieved business success through good design that reflects, or has an impact on, the Asia lifestyle."

This year there were about 650 entries. LTD won in the "Identity and Branding" category for its work on the Zelo Bar & Restaurant in Pacific Place. As the Award citation puts it, "The branding... illustrates how design can simultaneously be eco and edgy. The entire identity – including menus, hoarding and other collaterals – reflects the restaurant's 'eco-chic' and 'recycled-chic' concepts in a way that is sure to provide diners with food for thought and inspire other designers in this environmentally aware era."

Details of Zelo's consumer identity and exteriors at ltdhk.com

GUOFULOU

Identity for an upmarket Chinese restaurant. LTD also designed the restaurants carpeting in keeping with the contemporary Chinese interiors.

More details at ltdhk.com

Poster for Kagyu Monlam Life Release

LTD designed the poster for the "Life Release" event of the 7th Hong Kong Kagyu Monlam. The symbol in the center of the palm, designed by His Holiness the 17^th Karmapa, is that of Kagyu Monlan, an annual prayer meeting held at the Buddhist holy site of Bodhgaya. The symbol signifies mankind and nature joining hands and expresses the principle that we are not giving up on planet earth, which has immeasurably benefited all beings.

WagnWalk

LTD designed the T-shirt for the SPCA Event WagnWalk in the beginning of 2010.

“High-brow” dining

Identity design for an upscale Chinese restaurant. LTD was requested to work with the fung shui master’s colour recommendations, which were suitable for the restaurant business. It was interesting to mix modern design thinking and fung shui logic. The two seemed to work well together. We were relieved the fung shui colours did not turn out to be red and gold !!